Great Lakes Bulletin

America's Navy will come home to Chicago Aug. 7-15 to celebrate Navy Week 2010. Chicago was chosen as the host city giving area residents an opportunity to meet some of the Navy's Sailors and learn about the Navy's critical mission and its broad-ranging capabilities.

Sailors from Naval Station Great Lakes and its tenant commands have been mobilized to assist in the Haiti disaster.

HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan – The 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion convoy stopped, and Marines looked at each other with confused looks, knowing that there are very few reasons a convoy abruptly comes to a halt. The machine gunners swiveled in their turrets on high alert, surveying the area.

The Culinary Specialists  "A" School boasts 100 percent participation of all instructors in various higher education programs.

WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Navy Safe Harbor, the Navy's program to provide assistance to seriously wounded, ill, or injured service members, is seeking Navy and Coast Guard wounded warriors to participate in the inaugural Warrior Games May 10-14, 2010.

Assisting military children, and their families, in the transition to their new school is the goal of School Liaison Officer (SLO) Anne Kondziela, who came to Great Lakes in April 2009.

WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Navy Post-9/11 GI Bill experts Ann Hunter, voluntary education chief for the chief of naval personnel, and Lt. Cmdr. Raquel Gladieux, chief of navy reserve training and education policy officer, answer the most common questions received from active-duty and reserve Sailors and their families. The video series provides an additional resource, available 24/7, to assist Sailors in navigating through the process of claiming Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits.

WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy officially accepted delivery of the future USS Independence (LCS 2) Dec. 18 during a short ceremony in Mobile, Ala. Independence is the second littoral combat ship delivered to the Navy, and the first LCS of the General Dynamics variant. LCS is a new breed of U.S. Navy warship with versatile warfighting capabilities, capable of open-ocean operation, but optimized for littoral, or coastal, missions.

GRAYSLAKE – A police escort into his hometown. High praise from local officials and veterans. Finally reuniting with his friends and family.

WORLD'S LARGEST NEW YEAR'S EVE BASH

Seventy one children of military and civilian employees will receive the gift they have been asking for this year, thanks to the men and women of Naval Health Clinic Great Lakes and a program called Angel Tree.

It is now possible to apply your naval training towards an Associate in Applied Science (A.A.S.) degree from the College of Lake County (CLC).

PEARL HARBOR (NNS) -- The U.S. Navy and the National Park Service hosted a joint memorial ceremony at Kilo Pier on Naval Station (NAVSTA) Pearl Harbor to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7. 


GREAT LAKES, Ill. (NNS) -- Members of the USS Chicago (SSN 721) visited Sailors training in the USS Chicago Recruit Barracks at Recruit Training Command (RTC) Dec. 1, and presented a brow banner from the ship to be placed on the quarterdeck of the recruit barracks.